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Pseudo-intellectual

Pseudo-intellectual is a misnomer given by an intellectual to another intellectual whom they interpret to be showing inauthentic interest in intellectual matters; however, the reality is that the person interpreted to be a pseudo-intellectual is simply either less intellectually...
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Better person & worse person

The terms “better person” and “worse person” function to motivate people to become better persons, instead of worse persons, and to maintain the awareness that such a distinction exists.

The specific meaning of “better person” is a person who is actually...
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Tact - the art of making a point without making an enemy...
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Essential Political Vocabulary  

DRAFT - not yet to be widely circulated

Free will -  
differentiate it from philosophical and religious freewill

Choice -

Decision -

Freedom - absence interference (i.e. unwanted interaction) from other persons.

Right -

Privilege -

Entitlement...
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Arrogance & Hubris

Both of the terms "arrogance" and "hubris" are commonly used interchangeably to refer to both a person's inappropriately high perception of one's own importance and a person's inappropriately high confidence in one's own abilities. However, because it is extremely important to...
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War

War is a relationship of violence between two or more nations or empires that is initiated by at least one of the ruling regimes of those nations or empires. Although war is typically conducted by the specialized military forces of one nation/empire against the specialized military forces of...